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39 quotes by Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, most famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997), his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the documentary films Restrepo (2010), Korengal (2014), and his book War (2010).
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The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

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I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before... →

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The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident... →

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If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a... →

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What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of... →

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When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up... →

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I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief... →

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I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made... →

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In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss... →

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The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton... →

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No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark... →

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I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life... →

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No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply... →

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